Joe Klein: “Clinton has seemed rather wobbly this summer to a new generation of journalists—and citizens—who know only the myth of the Clintons: a brilliant, undefeatable political juggernaut. But the Clintons have always been a high-wire act. There have always been press conferences like the one in Las Vegas; there have always been crises like the server…. The Clintons, in essence, were the Donald Trumps of their time: you just didn’t say, or do, the things they said and did, and survive in American politics.”
“So if you’re Hillary and you’re fretting through a hostile press conference in Vegas, here’s what’s going through your mind: here we go again. Another cycle of dust and blather to be endured…. Smart politicians have a different sense of chronology than journalists. They are not concerned with ‘winning the day’ or the week. They know that the memory of the public is an eyelash in the wash of time…. Hillary Clinton is a tough politician but not an especially artful one…. There have been too few fine moments, and a new stage of the campaign begins now.”
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